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That's muddling hypothetical rights with de facto rights. Which was the same argument that lead (rightly, IMHO) to their enumeration in the Bill of Rights, in contrast to the unenumerated British system. Individuals protecting "th
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There are no natural rights absent power to enforce them. One could say there are natural desires, or natural ethics/morals, but these have no weight without a granting and enforcing entity. E.g. "my personal right to not pay taxe
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Indeed! But that's where Constitutional protections come in, and why the Bill of Rights was added.
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I'd also hazard that global peer to peer information networks and the visibility they provide has increased the domestic repercussions of the worst external state -sponsored exploitation of Africa. Colonialism seemed to work in large
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There's also the underappreciated value of institutional inertia. A large part of why mature democracies work is the historical mass of their institutions serving as ballast to keep the system from oscillating/crashing. I.e. Court
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It's a special talent to be simultaneously capable in math & teaching it to people who are not. Teaching 63 years worth of students + OCW views = a helluva legacy Thank you, Dr. Strang!
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"Okay, let's work out one more row."
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Specifically in this context -- 9/11 and perceived ongoing threats from international terror. A shocking and terrible event happens, a report identifies that intelligence agencies collectively had all the pieces to prevent it but were
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In geopolitical terms, every country is an enemy (in the sense that I believe parent used it) precisely because every country is autonomous. "It" may decide on courses of action that are in its best interests but detrimental to ot
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It's unfortunate that aiming for 90/00s quality is that much harder nowadays.
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People can play fact Monopoly behind the scenes as much as they want -- there's a reason Talk isn't displayed without clicking on it.
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It's crazy visiting China and southeast Asia, seeing entire hill ranges terraced (in the same way that farm fields would be divided in the UK or US), and realizing just how old those terraces are. Makes you appreciate how old of a tech
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Oof. Hemphill was pretty rough, pre-Antico metastasis cleaning up the far end. The west & north sides of GT are unrecognizable to me now though -- condos and yuppie shops.
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The trick was to have a broken window pane that you patched with duct tape and cardboard. Not one break in! Figured no one thought we were worth it. Although we were two houses across the street from Kool Korner, so maybe that was the &quot
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The iPhone's a pretty crappy apples:apples example, because a huge part of its functionality was outside Apple's control -- a usable cellular data plan. And, from memory, only came about because Apple was Apple and could say &quot
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How would the quoted price move without transactions? (And I realize we're bleeding over into market making dynamics here)
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Deterrence has a role. As you point out, it's not most efficient path to resolving differences in America, but I can't say that forcefully pushing through police lines, breaking windows, and illegally entering the Capitol should b
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In order for the stock "price" to move, somebody sold. Stocks don't reprice without transactions.
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Sometimes, the world needs a little chaotic evil -- it's the only way we'll beat the machines.
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"Grind a quarter cup (for each cupcake) of red cherry seeds in a mortar and pestle, then add to batter for a surprising flavor!"
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Since the 1400s; ref polder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Neth...
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> different economic phenomenon that needs different rules than if e.g. Goodyear sells tires at far below cost in California until competitors leave and then they raise the price. What's the end game to VC subsidies? There are man
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The USD is a world trade and reserve currency. If you don't run deficits, the monetary supply part of that system gets a bit wonky. The Norwegian krone is used more than other currencies (oil), but isn't nearly the same.
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wrist : insideOfPocket is more different than wrist : eyes Or, to put it another way, how many people do you know who complain about the difficulty in looking at their wrist or cell phone? That's the count of people fo
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> “The main goal was to have the video removed,” [Fink] said. “Not to jail the guy. Furthermore I have not heard of any human rights issues in DRC.” Something something, when his job depends on him not noticing it.
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A study of futurism I read made the insightful observation that things which explode in popularity don't just do things differently -- they let you do new things. Apple II - graphical OS iPod - music in your pocket iPhone
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Training a model on a bunch of images by {artist}, and then telling it "Generate me 20 images in the style of {artist}" seems pretty close to this ruling. It's non-transformative in the legal sense that {an original image by
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The US Congress passed copyright laws. Reality raises questions on edge cases. The courts clarify edge cases. In this case, the courts' clarification just happens to be on "What sort of artistic transformation is sufficient to qua
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I don't have enough fingers to count the times I was doing automation in healthcare, implemented the process to spec, and then had a bunch of test cases flagged as failing. Turns out, for large known counterparties, there are indeed de
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Healthcare is the perfect storm of layered, ossified systems created across decades + input data that's normal just often enough... that everyone thinks bounds are actually handled. And then Mr. O'Leary checks in. Fuzz testing too

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